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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frost
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frosted glass (=glass with a rough surface so that it is not transparent)
▪ The bathroom windows were made of frosted glass.
Jack Frost
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ The early frost today was a worry.
▪ Dresden Heide Dresden Their feet crunched on the brittle undergrowth, leaving sharp footprints where the early morning frost had taken hold.
▪ To see that the sowing is begun sufficiently early to avoid risks of early frosts. 17.
hard
▪ Mangolds must be lifted and clamped before the risk of any hard frost.
▪ Apart from the brief cold spell in late November, we have had very few hard frosts.
▪ And the snow was so hard with the frost that you could walk over it with safety.
▪ After a hard frost the passage walls sweated and water trickled down the corridors.
▪ It had been a very hard frost, the path was very slippery, and that night was particularly cold.
heavy
▪ Even when the blossom was browned by heavy frost just before Christmas, it took only a fortnight to recover.
▪ I awoke the next morning to a heavy frost.
▪ Frost bites HEAVY frost is threatening today's meetings.
▪ It was exceptionally cold with a heavy frost.
▪ After heavy frosts the roots may have lifted or loosened.
late
▪ Or late frosts, and drizzle throughout August?
▪ Experts are blaming cool, wet weather throughout June, perhaps coupled with late frosts.
▪ It would never survive, of course; the slightest hint of a late frost and it would wither and drop.
▪ One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost.
▪ But late frosts may have hit the barleys, he believes.
severe
▪ Occasionally, as in the winter of 1982, there is severe frost.
▪ Snow, water and severe frosts hit sport although still some action with grayling in upper reaches.
▪ Plentiful moisture in the extreme northern latitudes, for example, is rendered useless by severe winter frost and an abbreviated growing season.
▪ As soon as the chance of a severe frost is passed, remover any winter protection from semi-tender plants.
sharp
▪ There had been a sharp frost overnight and the ground was frozen hard.
▪ The ground was hardened by a sharp frost making the going firm on a fine, sunny day.
▪ There was a sharp edge of frost in the air.
white
▪ The pavements and cars are all covered in this white frost sort of stuff.
▪ Their leaves fall in droves when the sun hits them in the morning, and then they settle on to white hoar frost.
▪ Some of their potatoes have adapted to cold so they can still grow when their leaves are white with frost.
▪ It was black as night at new moon and white as frost at first light.
▪ Even with the blankets it was very chilly, and in the morning the ground was white with frost.
▪ Cloud flooded the southern valleys but our night was clear and starry, the coldest yet, with a white ground frost.
▪ There were stars in the clear, dark sky, and a white frost over the moor.
■ NOUN
damage
▪ Avoid an east-facing situation to prevent frost damage and cut back long growth immediately after flowering.
▪ The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.
▪ This can then encourage rot to grow on timber, and may also result in frost damage to masonry in cold weather.
▪ In mild winters apples buds began to break soon after Christmas, leaving them vulnerable to frost damage.
▪ Service pipes can run the length of the house and may need insulating against frost damage where exposed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hard winter/frost
▪ After a hard frost the passage walls sweated and water trickled down the corridors.
▪ All in all, the young have the odds stacked against them, especially in a hard winter.
▪ It looked as though it would be a hard winter.
frosted glass/window etc
▪ One of the tables, set behind an opaque frosted glass screen, is semi-private.
▪ The Controller's acknowledging smile was as brittle as frosted glass.
▪ The front door was open, revealing a stone-flagged porch, and an inner door with frosted glass in the top half.
▪ The headmaster appeared at the frosted glass of the door.
▪ The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door.
▪ The taps rattled the frosted glass again.
▪ There was a row of frosted glass windows down one side, each fitted with an electric fan.
sharp wind/frost
▪ The ground was hardened by a sharp frost making the going firm on a fine, sunny day.
▪ There had been a sharp frost overnight and the ground was frozen hard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Frost covered all the windows.
▪ A frost warning was issued for most of South Carolina.
▪ The Ohio valley is expecting the first frost of the season by Monday morning.
▪ There was frost on the windows and a chill in the air.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After that it was all weather: frosts and rains and spring and summer, and the long days growing longer.
▪ Already the grass was becoming crisp with frost.
▪ At a great distance, the ghostly frost of a snow peak seemed suspended from the clear sky.
▪ During the first few weeks, check that they haven't been lifted by frost or pecked out by birds.
▪ Here and there the frost had drawn trees and other patterns on the windowpanes.
▪ Kevin Lindsay, a farmer in the northwest Iowa town of Correctionville, had frost on the inside of his windows.
▪ Or late frosts, and drizzle throughout August?
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the particle is frosted with droplets of supercooled water, it begins the six-mile plunge to Earth.
▪ Continue beating while adding Karo syrup a little at a time, until frosting peaks.
▪ Mrs Clancy's was a marble cake frosted white and decorated with chocolate curls and chocolate creams.
▪ Overnight all the windowpanes had been frosted over.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frost

Frost \Frost\ (fr[o^]st; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. fre['o]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. [root]18. See Freeze, v. i.]

  1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

  2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

    The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
    --Shak.

  3. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

    He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
    --Ps. cxlvii. 16.

  4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.]

    It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
    --Sir W. Scott.

    Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost.

    Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophorus.

    Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries.

    Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses.
    --Knight.

    Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping.

    Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.

    The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.
    --Kane.

    Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze.

    Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

Frost

Frost \Frost\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.]

  1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

  2. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.

    While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frost

Old English forst, frost "frost, a freezing, frozen precipitation, extreme cold," from Proto-Germanic *frustaz- "frost" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German frost, Middle Dutch and Dutch vorst), related to freosan "to freeze," from suffixed form of PIE *preus- "to freeze; burn" (see freeze (v.)). Both forms of the word were common in English till late 15c.; the triumph of frost may be due to its similarity to the forms in other Germanic languages. A black frost (late 14c.) is one which kills plants (turns them black) but is not accompanied by visible frozen dew.

frost

1630s, "to cover with frost," from frost (n.). Intransitive sense of "to freeze" is from 1807. Related: Frosted; frosting.

Wiktionary
frost

n. 1 A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. 2 The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. 3 (context figurative English) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. 4 (context obsolete English) The act of freeze; the congelation of water or other liquid. vb. 1 To get covered with '''frost'''. 2 To coat something (e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost. 3 To anger or annoy.

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WordNet
frost

  1. n. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: hoar, hoarfrost, rime]

  2. weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: freeze]

  3. the formation of frost or ice on a surface [syn: icing]

  4. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963) [syn: Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost]

frost

  1. v. decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: ice]

  2. provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"

  3. cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"

  4. damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and athey turned brown"

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Gazetteer
Frost, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 648
Housing Units (2000): 250
Land area (2000): 1.131297 sq. miles (2.930045 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005027 sq. miles (0.013021 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.136324 sq. miles (2.943066 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27768
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.079218 N, 96.808544 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76641
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Frost, TX
Frost
Frost, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 251
Housing Units (2000): 126
Land area (2000): 0.526569 sq. miles (1.363807 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.526569 sq. miles (1.363807 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22940
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.585305 N, 93.924737 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56033
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Frost, MN
Frost
Wikipedia
Frost

Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight. In temperate climates it most commonly appears as fragile white crystals or frozen dew drops near the ground, but in cold climates it occurs in a greater variety of forms. Frost is composed of delicate branched patterns of ice crystals formed as the result of fractal process development.

Frost is known to damage crops or reduce future crop yields, therefore farmers in those regions where frost is a problem often invest substantial means to prevent its formation.

Frost (rapper)

Arturo Molina, Jr. (born May 31, 1962), better known as Frost (originally Kid Frost), is an American hip hop recording artist. He is from Windsor, California. He is also the father of record producer Scoop DeVille.

Frost (Australian band)

FROST is an Australian pop rock band formed in 1997 in Melbourne. Although the band has change several drummers since its inception, they are becoming an increasingly popular independent group in Australia. Lee "Lemon" Trevena is the singer, Tim "Porn" Powne plays bass guitar, and Benny Bishop plays keyboards; as of 2002, Jerry Speiser, formerly of hit 1980s pop band Men at Work, plays drums.

The band received hi-rotation on Nova 100 and SBS Television in 2003 with their single, "You and Me", featured on the SBS and Universal Records CD, The SBS Whatever Sessions. As of 2004 they have released three EPs. The Usual Suspects (EP/MGM/2004), FROST (LP/SHOCK/2005) and 10:06 (EP/Green/2006).

Frost will appear on the Sound of Melbourne Records release in 2011.

Band Members have included: Jerry Speiser (Men at Work), Rohan Heddle (Cordrazine), Benny Bishop (ABBAration), Rachel Parkinson (The Mabels) Joe James, Lemon and Timmy Porne.

Frost (crater)

Frost is a lunar crater that is attached to the southern rim of the walled plain Landau, and lies on the far side of the Moon. Just to the east is Petropavlovskiy, and to the northeast along the edge of Landau is Razumov. The crater Douglass is located less than a crater diameter to the west-southwest.

The outer rim of Frost is eroded, but is overlaid by only one small craterlet along the northeast side. The inner wall is wider and heavier along the northern side where it has been reinforced by the former rim of Landau. The northern part of the interior floor is occupied by two smaller craters, with the larger of the two along the northwest inner wall. The southern part of the floor is relatively level and featureless.

Frost (disambiguation)

Frost may refer to two distinct weather phenomena:

  • Frost (temperature), a value of air temperature less or equal than the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F)
  • Frost, a solid deposition of ice on surfaces and objects

Frost may also refer to:

Frost (album)

Frost is the second studio album by Norwegian metal band Enslaved. It was released in 1994, through Osmose Productions.

This would be the last album to feature drummer Trym Torson before he joined Emperor.

Frost (temperature)

Frost or freezing occurs when the temperature of air falls below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F, 273.15 K). This is usually measured at the height of 1.2 m above the ground surface.

There is a rather subjective scale to show several degrees of frost severity:

  • slight frost:
  • moderate frost: −3.6 to −6.5 °C (25.6 to 20.3 °F)
  • severe frost: −6.6 to −11.5 °C (20.2 to 11.3 °F)
  • very severe frost: below

Frost is not necessary to get ground frost or hoar frost; they can form even if air temperature is above freezing point if the surfaces have been chilled by heat emission during a cold night.

Frost (comics)

Frost is a fictional Image Comics superhero. He is Gaia's son from an extramarital affair and the black sheep of the family. Aside from Gaia, each member of the family treats him with varying degrees of scorn.

To the general public, Frost is something of an urban legend. He lives in seclusion in a large ice castle near the Aurora Borealis, and has the power of cryokinesis as well as the ability to transform into a cool mist. Frost always has an agenda when it comes to the Nobles (except for Gaia, to whom he's extremely loyal). He even went so far as to have an affair with Celeste while she was married to Rusty. He often hires himself out as a troubleshooter, even doing jobs for the U.S and Canadian governments. It was revealed that his father was actually a parallel universe version of "Doc".

In Noble Causes 30 Frost visits Rusty in prison and admits that he is jealous of him in an attempt to cheer Rusty up. He says that Doc loved Rusty so much he even created a robot to give him affection.

Frost (collection)

Frost is a collection of mystery stories by author Donald Wandrei. It was released in 2000 by F & B Mystery in an edition of 1,100 copies of which 100 were signed by the editor and artist and released in a slipcase with Wandrei's Three Mysteries. The stories features Wandrei's scientist detective I. V. Frost and originally appeared in the magazine Clues Detective. It collects the first 8 stories, with the final 10 planned for a subsequent volume. This never appeared. Haffner Press is putting out a complete collection of I.V. Frost.

Frost (novel)

Frost is the first novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1963. An English translation by Michael Hofmann was published in 2006.

Frost (Norwegian band)

Frost is a Norwegian electronic duo consisting of Aggie Peterson and Per Martinsen. The group formed in 1997 in Tromsø, Norway with original line-up composed of Aggie Peterson and DJ Rune Lindbæk. They released their debut album "Bedsit Theories" in 1998.

Frost (surname)

Frost (also frosti ,froast or froste) is a surname of Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian and German origin, meaning born at the time of frost (winter) or someone with an icy or unbending disposition, and was originally a title of one who was shown to be unflinched in times of battle or confrontation, or to have an "icy" disposition, rather than a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • A. B. Frost (Arthur Burdett Frost, 1851–1928), American illustrator and graphic artist
  • Alex Frost (born 1987), American actor
  • Andrew Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Andy Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Anthony Frost (born 1951), English abstract artist
  • Arthur Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Ben Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Craig Frost (born 1948), American musician
  • Dan Frost (born 1961), Danish track cyclist
  • Daniel M. Frost (1823–1900), Confederate general during the American Civil War
  • Darrel Frost (born 1951), American herpetologist
  • Dave Frost (born 1952), former American baseball player
  • David Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Derrick Frost (born 1980), American footballer
  • Doug Frost (swimming coach) (born 1943), Australian swimming coach
  • Doug Frost (wine) American Master of Wine, Master Sommelier and author
  • Edwin Brant Frost (1855–1935), American astronomer
  • Eunice Frost (1914-1998), British publisher
  • Francis Theodore Frost (1843–1916), Canadian manufacturer and politician
  • Frank Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Gavin Frost (born 1930), founder of the Church and School of Wicca
  • George Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Graeme Frost (born 1995), American student and Democratic advocate
  • H. A. Frost (1844–1909), Heinrich Adolphe Frost or Henry Adolph Frost, South Australian saddler and auto business pioneer
  • Harry Frost, Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Henry Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Henry Atherton Frost, American architect
  • Honor Frost (1917–2010), pioneer in the field of underwater archaeology
  • Jack Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • James Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Jennipher Frost, American model
  • Jenny Frost (born 1978), British singer
  • Jim True-Frost (born 1966), American actor
  • Jo Frost (born 1971), English nanny and television presenter
  • John Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Julie Frost, American songwriter
  • Kathryn Frost (1948–2006), Commander in the United States Army and Air Force Exchange Service
  • Kenneth John Frost (1934–2013), American astrophysicist
  • Kid Frost (born 1964), Mexican-American hip-hop artist
  • Lauren Frost (born 1985), American artist
  • Laurence Hugh Frost (1902–1977), U.S. Admiral
  • Leslie Frost (1895–1973), Canadian politician
  • Lindsay Frost (born 1962), American actor
  • Luke Frost, British abstract artist
  • Mark Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Martin Frost (born 1942), American politician
  • Morten Frost (born 1948), former Danish badminton player
  • Nick Frost (born 1972), English actor and comedian
  • Olive Grey Frost, one of several wives of Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Peter Frost (disambiguation), several people
  • Polly Frost, American journalist
  • Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet
  • Robert I. Frost (c. 1960–), British historian
  • Royal Harwood Frost (1879–1950), American astronomer
  • Sadie Frost (born 1965), English actress and fashion designer
  • Samuel H. Frost (born 1818), New York politician
  • Scott Frost (born 1965), American football coach
  • Scott Frost (writer), American screen writer and novelist
  • Stef Frost (born 1989), English professional footballer
  • Stephen Frost (born 1955), English comedian
  • Stuart W. Frost (1891–1990), American professor of entomology
  • Sir Terry Frost (1915–2003), English abstract artist
  • Terry Frost (actor) (1906–1993), American actor
  • Tony Frost (born 1975), English cricketer
  • Wade Hampton Frost (1880–1938), American epidemiologist
  • Warren Frost (born 1925), American actor
  • Wenlan Hu Frost (born 1958), Chinese-American artist
  • Yvonne Frost, American wiccan author
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Usage examples of "frost".

There was not much but its head and shoulders showing above a bed of tall bracken burnt by frost, each brown fern tip adangle with a bright drop of collected fog.

A row of diamond panes frosted in starlight were open, and the great aftercastle window showed a rippling moon dancing in the wake.

The doubtful condition of Lucknow, Benares, and Agra comes in the rear of all this to strike a frost into the heart, or would do so, again I say, if any other nation were concerned.

In a good year with abundant water, the Anasazi harvest would be bountiful, unless there was an early frost.

There were also Vilmos, paramount of storm giants, Ottar, jarl of frost giants, and all the other Sons of Annam, the eternal monarchs born of Othea and destined to rule the races of giant-kind as long as Ostoria endured.

With a couple of bangs in the right place from Frost, it was eventually coaxed into place.

April 25, when the likelihood of frost had diminished, he had to plant his sugar beets the way a housewife plants radishes: he sowed the seed heavily along the whole length of his rows, using about twenty-four times as many seeds as he really needed.

In the high valleys ponds and bogholes smoked amidst the unmelted frost.

Even those who longed to see something of the world outside the valley could not really imagine a life without the seasonal rhythm of budbreak, berryset, ripening, harvest and frost.

Without warning, the Vet turns aside and scrambles down a slope and along a faint trail through dead burrs, and stunted, hollow-stalked weeds brittle with the frost.

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

New England, cabbages are not secure from injury from frost with less than a foot of earth thrown over the heads.

His hands locked under him still retained magic, and Candlemas felt ice frost his rough smock and belly.

Almost Home cookies, ice cream, a Pepperidge Farm frozen chocolate cake, and four cans of canned chocolate frosting to be eaten with a large spoon.

But: The Soul watches the ceaselessly changing universe and follows all the fate of all its works: this is its life, and it knows no respite from this care, but is ever labouring to bring about perfection, planning to lead all to an unending state of excellence--like a farmer, first sowing and planting and then constantly setting to rights where rainstorms and long frosts and high gales have played havoc.